Fant de Kanter Composer
Fant de Kanter is a modern composer from Amsterdam (The Netherlands). It is quite impossible to define a dominant influence in the music of Fant de Kanter. A lot of his work is indeed characterized by, for example, classical structures, but an unmistakable love for pop music is at least equally noticeable. Tradition aswell as avant-garde techniques serve as a means to shape a musical thought, without themselves ever becoming the goal.
"...But Dutch composer Fant de Kanter's "Chasing Planes/Placing Chains," written just this year for the Octet, put them through their paces with pounding,
assembly-line rhythms, jabbing accents and fugal writing chasing back and forth across the ensemble. It was a bracing piece, played brilliantly." (The Washington Post)
